Cairo 1.12 Released With Major New Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Cairo 1.12 Released With Major New Features

At a time when new graphics libraries are popping up like Enesim, Fog, Azure, and others, there's a major new release of Cairo. The Cairo 1.12 2D vector graphics library was released on Friday after being in development for the past year and a half and it introduces several major features...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA3NzE

[bug77]

I was expecting to browse a bunch of PTS benchmarks, along with this article.

[ean5533]

I was expecting to browse a bunch of PTS benchmarks, along with this article.

Followed by a bunch of complaints about how those benchmarks are useless because of factors a,b,c,d,e,f...

[kernelOfTruth]

and it features font- & other corruption on display:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409593

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38904

hope they'll figure out what the cause of the issue is

[bug77]

and it features font- & other corruption on display

That's not the point. I believe this is supposed to be faster corruption than what we had before.

[kernelOfTruth]

That's not the point. I believe this is supposed to be faster corruption than what we had before.

yeah, seems you're spot on

I still see some minor corruption e.g. the font on tabs in firefox - but these only occur randomly

weird stuff


well, at least cairo 1.12 works now somehow usably